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« on: December 31, 2007, 10:08:30 PM »
Kitsune: Japan's fox of Mystery, Romance and Humor seems to be the most-referenced work on kitsune. It's out of print, and rather hard to find. Not to mention really expensive. I found a PDF of it, scanned from the book, And I decided to post a link to it here. The original link is from Foxtrot's page, but his update says it was scanned by one of his freinds. I decided not to be a dirty hotlinker so the link goes to the FTP parent directory where it's located.

http://delathehooda.com/kitsune
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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2007, 10:26:53 PM »
Thanks for the link, I've been looking for this for a while! Sad that there's really only one book like this out there though, I just wonder how many books like this are available in Japan, but too unlikely to be translated to English.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2008, 11:27:38 PM »
Quote from: "From the final paragraph of Page 7 of 'Kitsune'"
Kitsune, it must be remembered, was real in the minds of these people. They lived with Kitsunh. They shared joy and sorrow with Kitsune. They fell in love with Kitsunh - and Kitsunb was infatuated with.....
The italics are his.

... WTF is a Kitsunh , or a Kitsunb? How do you even go about pronouncing "kitsunh"?

These appear in other parts of the text as well. Is it a thing with the translation? Or maybe something I'd get if I knew Japanese? Maybe archaic gender indicators? I'm confused.

I googled it. Dissapointing result, and I very much doubt their reliability on the subject of Kitsune, but they have a possible answer to the spelling. The author of this blog suggests that the OCR program choked on the accented "e" in kitsune and failed. I don't agree with this logic. Why would it be so inconsistent in a burst like that and then read the print properly for long stretches otherwise? And it looks like a genuine scan to me, not OCR over generic book backgrounds. But it is the only hit on google to "kitsunh" and the only other hit to "kitsunb" is somebody's xanga page.
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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2008, 05:12:27 AM »
After looking at Japanese letters:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/hiragana_a.jpg

It appears that there are no "nb" or "nh" letters in the Hiragana. Thus there are no sounds involved and the letters themselves should not even be next to each other.

I would agree that the OCR system's reading of Kitsuné was probably in error on that page. It is strange that it is the only page where these errors occur, but it is not impossible.
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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2008, 08:13:55 PM »
I have found another similar error on page 90 with the word saké. SalemFuchs is correct that they are all typos.

There are quite a few typos in the PDF, just ignore them as they mean nothing. They are OCR errors that were not corrected at the time of scanning.
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